Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-04-29
Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 065003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
62 pages REVTEX, 14 figures; v2: numerous clarifications, sect. 2C shortened, new material in sect. 3C; v3: more clarification
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.065003
We propose a gauge-invariant and manifestly UV finite resummation of the physics of hard thermal/dense loops (HTL/HDL) in the thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma. The starting point is a simple, effectively one-loop expression for the entropy or the quark density which is derived from the fully self-consistent two-loop skeleton approximation to the free energy, but subject to further approximations, whose quality is tested in a scalar toy model. In contrast to the direct HTL/HDL-resummation of the one-loop free energy, in our approach both the leading-order (LO) and the next-to-leading order (NLO) effects of interactions are correctly reproduced and arise from kinematical regimes where the HTL/HDL are justifiable approximations. The LO effects are entirely due to the (asymptotic) thermal masses of the hard particles. The NLO ones receive contributions both from soft excitations, as described by the HTL/HDL propagators, and from corrections to the dispersion relation of the hard excitations, as given by HTL/HDL perturbation theory. The numerical evaluations of our final expressions show very good agreement with lattice data for zero-density QCD, for temperatures above twice the transition temperature.
Blaizot Jean Paul
Iancu Edmond
Rebhan Anton
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